Trousers hanger



P. K. RUSSELL TROUSERS HANGER Filed c. 27. 1924 YINVENTOR' E F 8 ,Q ATTORNEY: v

Patented Oct. 20, 1925.

UNITED STATES PHILIP K. RUSSELL, or NEWYORK, N.- Y.

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Application filed December 27, 1924. Serial No. 758,345.

To all whom it may concern: a

Be it known that I, PHILIP K. RUSSELL, citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trousers Hangers, of which the following is'a specification.

This invention relates generally to trousers hangers, the invention having more particular reference to trousers hangers of the type having a pair of flat gripper bars or jaws which are clamped upon the legs of the trousers at the bottom thereof.

The invention has for an object to provide a trousers hanger of this sort having a novel pressure means applied to the clamping bars, which permits of the same being readily released, and returned tooperative position.

For further comprehension of the invention and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, and

' to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Fig. 1 of the drawing is a perspective view of my improved trousers hanger.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view taken centrally through the handle.

Fig. 3 is an end view.

Fig. 4. is a fragmentary transverse sectional view taken on the line H of Fig. 2.

Referring now to the drawing my improved trousers hanger comprises a pair of flat gripper bars and 11 that are attached to the ends of pairs of rods 12 and 13, the respective rods of each pair being rigidly connected to one another at their other ends. As here shown the rods 12 are fixed to opposite ends of a spindle 15 which has mounted freely thereon, adjacent its ends the disks 16 to which the rods 13 are fixed. These disks 16 are rigidly united to one another by means of the tubular handle element 17 that surrounds the spindle 15 and is fixed at opposite ends to the said disk. The spindle 15 has coiled around it a spring 20 that is attached at one end to the said spindle as at 20 and has a detachable operative engagement at the other end with the adjacent disk 16 whereby the pairs of rods 12 and 13 are urged in a direction to press the bars 10 spring from the disk 16.

and 11 against one another. As here shown the end 20 of the spring engages in a socket p 21 sunk in the disk 16 below the bottom of an annular groove 22 in the inner face of the disk. Fixed to the adjacent end of the spindle 15 is a radially projecting finger 24 that has a forked latchbar 25 slida-bly mounted therein, this latchbar extending parallel to the spindle. The forked end of this bar isadapted to engage, at certain times, a tip 26 projected radially from the end of the spring 20, to lift the spring end 20 out of the socket 21 and so free the The bar 25 has hinged to the outer end an extension 28 that is swung down into alinement with thebar to hold the latter in operative position, the extension being retained in the said position by an abutment element 29 projected from the finger 24, the extension having a knob 30 thereon whereby it may be manipulated. The handle 17 is formed with an arcuate recess 32 in its inner side that receives the said bar 25.

Normally the pressure of the spring 20 acts to keep its end in the socket 21 and the bar 25 is completely withdrawn from the tip 26. When the gripper bars are to be separated to receive the ends of the trouser legs, the bar 25 is moved inward to cause the forked end thereof to engage the tip- 26 on the spring 20 and to lift the end of the spring from the socket 21. The spring is then looked at both ends to the spindlelo and the handle 17, to which the disks 16 are fixed, and the spindle 15 are. thus freed for relative rotation. When the trousers have been properly positioned in the device the bar 25 is withdrawn, and the end of the spring 20 snaps back into socket 21 causing the spring to act torsionally to cause the gripper bars to bear with proper pres sure on the trouser legs. The handle 17 is provided with a hook 3st for suspension of the device.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows: I

1. A trousers hanger comprising a tubular handle, a spindle extending freely through said handle, a pair of disks mounted freely on said spindle one near each end thereof and having said handle fixed thereto, a spring ati ai'hed at one end to the said spindle and having its other end engaged in a notch in one of the. said disks to urge the said spindle and handle in airotary direction upon one another, gripper elements carried respectively by the spindle and handle, and means for releasing the last named'endof the spring fro-m the said disk and engaging it with the said spindle.

2. A trousers hanger comprising a tubular handle, a spindle extending freely through said handle, a pair of disks mounted freely on said spindle one near each end thereof and having said handle fixed thereto, a spring attached at. one end to the said spindle and-having its other end'engaged in a notch in one of'the said disks to urge the said spindle and handle in a rotary direction upon one another, gripper elements carried respectively by the spindle and handle, and means for releasing the last named end of the spring from the said disk and engaging it With the said spindle, comprising a forked bar slidable-in a projection fromthe said spindle'and adapted to straddle an element on the end of the said spring.

3. A trousers hanger comprising a. tubular handle, a spindle extending freely through said handle, a pair of disks mounted freely on said spindle one near each end thereof and having said handle fixed thereto, a springattached at one end to the said spindlev and having its other end engaged in a notch in one of the said disks to urge the said spindle and handle in a rotary direction '-',upon one another, gripper elements' carried respectively by the spindle andhandle, and'means for releasing the last named end of the spring from the saiddisk and .erigagingit \vitlrthesaid spindle, comprising a forked bar slid-able in a projection from the said spindle and adapted to-straddle anelenient on the end of-the-sai'dspring, and-meansfor locking, said barin position Withthespring freed" from the said socket.

Intestiinony Whereof'Ihave aflixed my PHIEIP K. RUSSELL.

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